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University of California Press

Transnational Cinema Solidarity

Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973

by José Miguel Palacios (Author)
Price: $29.95 / £25.00
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 306
ISBN: 9780520402416
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Illustrations: 20 b/w figures
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About the Book

After the 1973 coup that put an end to the socialist government of Salvador Allende, most Chilean filmmakers went into exile. Dispersed all over the world, they made more than two hundred fiction films, documentaries, animations, videos, and works for television. José Miguel Palacios builds upon extensive archival research to trace a transnational history of this radical cinema, beginning with its emergence out of global solidarity networks in the 1970s. Chronicling the dangerous efforts to smuggle film reels out of Chile, the discourses of political cinema these films inspired as they traveled between film festivals, and the prints’ unfinished process of return to Chilean archives and museums over the last two decades, Transnational Cinema Solidarity offers a politicized understanding of world and transnational cinema that emphasizes geopolitical relations and cinematic alliances based on solidarity.

About the Author

José Miguel Palacios is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in the Department of Cinematic Arts at California State University, Long Beach.